Synopsis:

A long time ago in China, there existed three Books of Peace that proved so threatening to the reigning powers that they had them burned. Many years later Maxine Hong Kingston wrote a fourth Book of Peace, but it too was burned—in the catastrophic Oakland-Berkeley Hills fire of 1991, a fire that coincided with the death of her father. Now in this visionary and redemptive work, Kingston completes her interrupted labor, weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal.

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Topics/Categories:

Death, Devastation, Family, Fathers and Daughters, Fire, Peace, Renewal, War

Type of Work:

Book

Publishers:

Random House

Purchase From:

Barnes and Noble

Original Publish Date:

2004-09-01

ISBNs:

9780679760634

Formats:

Paperback